Time Past and Time Present in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and Gower's 'Confession Amantis'

Description: Both Chaucer and Gower expressed the sentiment that the world had grown old and cast the passing of time in moral terms. But they also ultimately relied on personal sensibilty to render the feeling or experience of time passing because they were not content merely to preach about mutability.; They both respected authority, and at the conclusion to ClT (4.1139-69) and to "Confession Amantis" (8.2745-940), they move from moralistic, clerical time to humanistic personal time.

Chaucer Subjects: Clerk and His Tale.; Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.